Here’s how the Sony Xperia Z2a compares with the Samsung Galaxy S5.
Sony Xperia Z2a
The Xperia Z2a is running Android 4.4.2 for an operating system. It has dimensions of 5.39 x 2.83 x 0.43 inches. It weighs in at 163 grams. The phone is water and dust resistant, and it has a display size of 5.0 inches. The resolution is 1080 x 1920. The camera has one of the largest resolutions currently available in phones at 20.7 megapixels. It can shoot camcorder videos at 4k resolution with 30 frames per second. The front facing camera is basic with 0.3 MP vga. The phone is running a quad core processor at 2300 MHz. It has over 3 GB of RAM and the built-in storage is 128 GB. You can expand this by up to 128 GB more with the expansion slots. The Xperia will last around 15 hours for talk time with a 3000 mAh capacity.
Samsung Galaxy S5
The S5 is running Android 4.4.2 with the TouchWiz UI. It has 5.59 x 2.85 x 0.32 inches for dimensions. It weighs in at 145 grams, and it also has the water and dust resistant case. The display size is slightly larger at 5.1 inches. It has a 1080 x 1920 resolution. The camera is at 16 MP with the 2.1 MP front-facing camera. It has the quad core processor with 2500 MHz. It also has 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of on-board memory. You can talk up to 21 hours with the Galaxy S5, and it has a cap of 2800 MAh.
Conclusion
The race here is close, but the S5 is probably the better phone since it has longer talk time and a better processor. It also has a much better secondary camera which is important if you want to be able to see yourself in any detail. The camera on the S5 may not be as high in megapixels, but it has something like twice the number of features at the Xperia phone.
